But that sense of no escape makes space the perfect locked room for a horror movie. And "Alien" definitely fits the bill. The movie, released in 1979, was only director Ridley Scott’s second film.

Similarly, not all "space movies" are science fiction ... and the guts to fly with NASA at the dawn of the Space Race. In 1979, Tom Wolfe wrote about the real-life Mercury Seven, and in 1983 ...

The Gendarme colelction is a series of French comic films created by Jean Girault and Richard Balducci, starring Louis de Funès as the protagonist Ludovic Cruchot, a sergeant of the gendarmerie.